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Believe it or not brother…God does not want us to have a sin consciousness. If you will read Hebrews 10 you see that the Old Covenant trapped the people in sin consciousness because they had to make sacrifice for their sins every day and every year. And in doing that they were always aware and conscious of their sins. But Christ made one sacrifice for sins forever so that He has cleansed our conscience –our consciousness- of dead works–sins and our abilities to not sin.
God wants us to have a RIGHTEOUSNESS consciousness…because that is what you are now you have accepted Jesus.
YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS by faith…not by repenting, not by praying, not by reading scripture…RECEIVE Jesus AS your righteousness. If He is in your heart brother, then you have received the RIGHTEOUS ONE –the RIGHTEOUS BRANCH–and He has become your RIGHTEOUSNESS—every day–every moment….YOU ARE A NEW CREATION in Jesus. FORGIVEN…JUSTIFIED….SANCTIFIED….GLORIFIED…RIGHTEOUS!
But if you do not believe this good news –you are still all those things from God’s perspective–but from your own darkened understanding you remain feeling condemned and guilty and falling short all the time….so you try to get that feeling off by works–like repenting all the time….but the ANSWER is to simply choose to BELIEVE what God has said about you….which is what I wrote above.
Love you brother.

more righteous than the Pharisees?

Yes and Jesus went onto say Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom….
But Paul said in Phil3 that he wants to be found not having his own righteousness which is from the law, but the righteousness which is a free gift from God through faith in Jesus.
When you believe upon Jesus you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus…not by what you do…but what He did for you.
That righteousness is a free gift to you,,,for you to receive daily.
Instead, we go for a long time, pushing his righteousness away and trying to establish our own righteousness as Rom 10:1-4 speaks about.
Jesus is your righteousness
Jesus in you…is your perfection before the Father.
He makes you blameless and spotless before God…every moment.
The old man died….can never be made perfect…
The new man is Christ Jesus and you joined as one person.
On your own you are nothing, can do nothing…
But you are not on your own are you.
You are perfect in God’s sight IF you believe Jesus is your ONLY righteousness.
If you start trying to do things to become more righteous…then you are not trusting in Jesus, but self….which is just a delusion anyway…for your new true self is Christ and you as one.

well said…it is very common in the Church for people to reject Paul. That shows that they have sided even unknowingly with the Circumcisers who were busy in his day seducing the new grace believers back under the Law and the Old Covenant. Most believers are still labouring under an old covenant mindset and have set aside the Grace of God preferring to be made righteous by their own efforts at being like Jesus. Its called self righteousness. Those who reject Paul fit into Romans 10:2-3 perfectly I am afraid.

Rom 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Rom 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.